Fossett's Plane Found

otter42 writes "Sadly, it looks as if all those crazies claiming Steve Fossett was still alive were wrong after all. The NY Times has the confirmation that wreckage of Fossett's Bellanca Citabria was found. Now it's up to the NTSB to tell us why this happened, although, statistically, dollars to donuts it was engine/fuel-related."

Comments

He's still kicking!

[sharp3]

No body was found, and was purportedly "eaten by animals". Conspiracy theories live on!

Re:He's still kicking!

[Ngarrang]

I'm not saying I think (or care) one way or another but it is conceivable he used a parachute...I mean...this is Steve Fossett after all.

So, maybe Fosset and DB Cooper are not kicking back a few drinks with Elvis on some lush pacific island paradise?

Re:He's still kicking!

[eln]

I think it's pretty obvious what happened here: Fossett was teleported out of his plane by the crew of a Starship from the future that used the "slingshot around the Sun" technique to travel back through time in order to retrieve him. They then took him back to their time in order to speak with an alien race that was accidentally destroying the Earth in its attempt to communicate with any daredevil billionaires that might be on the planet. Unfortunately for them, the Earth no longer used money, so there were no billionaires available, hence the need to fetch Fossett.

The evidence points so clearly to this scenario that there must be some sort of vast conspiracy covering it up, perhaps to avoid the embarrassment that would result from revealing that two of the Starship's crew members were able to infiltrate a nuclear wessel undetected.

Re:He's still kicking!

[LingNoi]

Why do people think that small airplane pilots need parachutes?

I don't know myself. Well lets get back to discussing the story about a rich pilot that died in a small aeroplane crash..

Dollars to Donuts I say...

[clonan]

Now it's up to the NTSB to tell us why this happened, although, statistically, dollars to donuts it was engine/fuel-related.

Dollars to donuts the CRASH was gravity related...the engine/fuel is just a side problem!

Re:Dollars to Donuts I say...

[curiosity]

Exactly. Gravity is just an unproven theory. Intelligent Falling is clearly to blame.

Wrong about Fossett, wrong about Reiser...

[nweaver]

What are the random internet nutcases right about anymore?

Wacky conspiracy theory

[Puffy Director Pants]

It took them this long to find the plane because they had to fake up a wreck!

Re:Check your own logic before calling others craz

[Anonymous Coward]

My guess would be that "someone" would have been something like a raccoon or a buzzard.

That certainly explains why when I'm killing rats and spiders they keep dropping gold and broadswords.

From TFA...

[IronMagnus]

Rusty Aimer, chief executive of Aviation Experts

I hope this guy doesn't own a gun... get it?

Re:Occam's razor...

[Chris Burke]

I think it is becoming clearer that Fossett survived the crash, and was shortly adopted by a bear, and is currently living in a cave, having forgotten his human status due to traumatic brain injury.

*sigh* More of this? You he's-alive-and-adopted-by-bears people are crazy nutjobs. It's the he's-alive-and-adopted-by-wolves people who have their fingers on the pulse of truth. Wake up!

GTA: Inyo

[jbeaupre]

Images of Grand Theft Airplane: Inyo National Forest. Poor dude getting jacked at 10,000 ft.

Re:GTA: Inyo

[idontgno]

Im Inyo National Forest crashin an burnin. kthxbye

Re:My experience that day

[LotsOfPhil]

because...
Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

1 foot = 3.04 metres?

[BandoMcHando]

Hmm.... I'm particularly loving the math skills of the International Herald Tribune's journalists.

Mammoth Lakes is about 10,000 feet, or 30,400 meters, above sea level, and snow makes already difficult terrain largely impassable and could bury plane wreckage.

Re:Fuel / Engine Related?

[onkelonkel]

It was the deadly Cumulo-Granitus cloud.